2002 Volume 22 Issue 1 Pages 51-57
Hospital information systems (HIS) have been introduced since 1980's and improved clinical practice in Japan. However, statistical evaluation of HIS has not been reported enough. In this paper, HIS was evaluated by interviewing all the medical doctors, including residents at Shimane medical university hospital. The results can be summarized into the following three points. First, doctors answered that HIS improves the clinical environment, compared with paper-oriented system in some way with respect to the calculation of payment and laboratory reports. Secondly, they answered that waiting time for outpatient clinic, consultation hours, clinical research has been improved and that HIS has an effect to education to medical students and residents. Finally, they answered that HIS does not improve the medical accidents and incidents, including the mistakes of prescription and injection orders.
